Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-04
CORSICADA GEES It.
The Commissioners Appointed to
Locate the State Orphan Asylum
Renjer Their Decision.
A Msjariiy Report Made in Favor OF
Corsieans, and 3 Minority Report
in Favor Of Pilot PoInG,
Fhc Minority Report Recognizes ,he Legal
iiy of 'he II q 1rity Report and the Ouss-
ton is Regarded as Settled.
Special to the Gazette.

| Special TO the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Tex, Oct 5 The commits
sioners appointed to locate the State
Orphan Asylum finally rendered their de-
cision to-day. After travelling forty da,
over the state and spending $1,000 they
nave chosen CorsicaGa. TIE commission
was divided as 10 tie different points,
out al united il the determination that
Austin should 20. have it. The majority
report is as follows;
Hon. L. S. Ross, Governor, Austin. Tex:
DEAR SIR-The undersigned, appointed
bY you commission to select site for the
State Orphan Asylum, provided for IN the
act approved April +, 1887, have the honor
70 report that they met and organ
izad on the lon of last august. Imme-
GIstely Through dive ofthe principal news
papers published in different sections of
the state they invited the towns therein to
compete for the location Of the asylum
ss contemplated by said act, and on the
next day Ihey began p6rs onal inspection
| Of, and inquiry into the advantages and
claims Of such Of the towns and cities as
! they had been or were afterwards by let
ter, kilograms or through committees of
citizens appointed foo the purpose, sd
Yised would compete for the l0CstiOu
Of the asylum snd in the order named
they visited Pilot Point, Denton, Fort
Worth, Grauburg, Wesrherf0rd, Ava
RADIO, Dallas, Terrell, Piano, Sherman,
! Bonhsm, Paris, Blossom Prairie, Pales-
| tine, Tgler Corsicans, Temple, Bolton,
LampasaS, SAINTS Anna, Brennan, Cuero,
San Antonio, San Marcos and Austin.
. q cor ff1li inf al
ventages specified by said act - be taken
into consideration, possessed closely by
each of the places named, and in nearly
every one Of them we're kindly aided by
courteous citizens IN their err
deavor to obtain such Informs
tion es was needed in cOnuec-
ton with 8 personal inspection of the
towns and their surroundings. From
such inspection and Information, inter
careful consideration, the commissioners
are Of the opinion that the town OF CoTsi-
cana, IN the county Of Navarro, possessing
the combined requisites OF accessibility
by railroad, health snd fertility OF soil,
is the most suitable site for the location
of me asylum, and believing that the
interests Of the state will be suD5erved
by it's location there, under the authority
of Gsid act, they seIect snd designate s5id
Corsicsna as s site for the State Orphan
Asylum. ]. L LABATT, Chairman,
II. c. CLEAvER.
The following was the minority report /.
To HIS En- ,ellency Governor Ross:
The undersigned commissioner to 10
cate the State Orphan Asylum, with due
regard 10 the honorable commissioners
above set forth, as well as TO Corsicana,
would respectfully set forth that he can
not concur ii the foregoing selection as
against Pilot Point in the final ballot. for
the following sacred and unseihsh req
sons:
l. That North Texas in point of taxa
bic values and population bears the larg-
est burden of the stste government and
has not one single institution of the
state.
.. Corsjcaua is within the space OF one
county Of tBe Rusk PeniteD,iary, and on
the west within one and 8 half counties
OF the St6.e RefOrmstory.
3. The chosen location is upon an adj
joining tract Of land, and the c0ntem-
plated site within few hundred Yards OF
the already established State Orphans
Home Of the Independent Order OF Odd
/, Fellows, which will surely conflict il
, local privileges and public sympathies
| snd charities which belong wholly TO this
, State Orphan Asylum.
| 4. In an offered compromise between
| Alvsrado, Denton or Pilot Point, in the
: latter we cain altitude over Corsicana OF
/ PIG fee, with building stone ana the
100 acre donation worth 100000 amid
( health unsurpassed, free from fear Of
fu IRE contagion and in the bosom Of the
Oest farming and Horticultural section OF
the state. Yet in IS much as it YVES pro
vded in the organization of the beard
that majority of two could be legal and
final in its decision, we waive any claim
touching the legality OF said maj ori.y
Respect .uIy submitted, F n. OLIVER.
C0rsicsns takes the cake.